Moving the Goalposts has held a meeting with stakeholders from the community and the government to explain the plans for the development of a football field for MTG and the Mnarani community near...Read more

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Ford Foundation, one of MTG's longstanding donors, visited MTG on Thursday 30th July with seventy of their grantees during the Annual Convening for Learning, Innovation and Social Change in Natural Assets that was held from 27th - 31st July in Serena Beach Hotel and Spa in Mombasa. MTG hosted a morning session in MTG's headquarter in which the Ford Foundation grantees got the opportunity to get to know MTG.

Parents' interviews carried out for the Building Young Women's Leadership Through Sports Programme, May 2015

Since 2002, girls are playing football in MTG. As Mr. Mbaji, one of the first teachers who embraced the concept of girls' football and MTG said in 2011: 'When I met Sarah Forde, the founder of MTG at an educational meeting in 2001, there was no football for girls. People disapproved it: girls raising up their legs..? That was not done.'

Moving the Goalposts has held a meeting with stakeholders from the community and the government to explain the plans for the development of a football field for MTG and the Mnarani community near the headquarters in Mnarani. The football field will be developed with support from streetfootballworld and GIZ.

Mejumaa Mwakaramu is a class seven pupil from Matuga primary school. She was awarded as the best essay writer in the essay writing competition 'Girls and Football' that was held during the MTG Primary School Tournament. The focus of the tournament was on increasing public awareness on the inequalities that exist in football, particularly, opportunity and resourcing for women football.

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Girls and women in Kilifi District, Kenya are some of the world’s poorest and most disadvantaged people. Low retention in school, early and unintended pregnancies and vulnerability to HIV/AIDS trap them in a cycle of poverty. Moving the Goalposts Kilifi (MTG) uses football to empower girls and young women, helping them to fulfill their potential both on and off the football field.